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Carol H Tucker
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Today is the 2nd day of the 38th week, the 19th day of the 9th month, the 263rd day of 2016, and:
- Independence Day -- Saint Kitts and Nevis from the United Kingdom in 1983.
- National Butterscotch Pudding Day
- National Woman Road Warrior Day
- Respect for The Aged Day
- Talk Like a Pirate Day -- a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon, springing from a romanticized view of the Golden Age of Piracy.
On this day in 335 Flavius Dalmatius was raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle, emperor Constantine I. In 1778 the Continental Congress passed the first United States federal budget. In 1796 George Washington's Farewell Address was printed across America as an open letter to the public. In 1846 two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experienced a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette. In 1879 the Blackpool Illuminations [AKA The Lights or The Illuminations, they run each year for sixty-six days] were switched on for the first time. In 1893 in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 was consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote. In 1982, emoticons were born when Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman proposed using a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis – :–) – to depict a horizontal smiley face. In 1991 Ötzi the Iceman was discovered by German tourists. In 2016 NASA Voyager be 18 hrs 53 mins 42 secs of lantern-light-travel time from Earth (2016:263:120000:1L)
The ability to implement a process/procedure is essential to the success of any strategy and attainment of a business goal, and yet, the back office support group is always the first hit with reductions in force and other cost cutting measures. Those who are in charge of documentation – digital and hard copy files – are often the most inexperienced and lower paid employees in the organization. And yet, when the unholy trio of auditors, regulators and examiners arrive what is it that they want to see? Are you really comfortable with the success or failure of a quality audit riding on someone at the bottom of the rung? Quality control is not just something you worry about in production, or once a year during an assessment, it is something that you have to live with day in and day out to achieve. Your organization knows when you are serious about it [and when you are giving lip service to it] because they can see how you allocate resources and what kind of attention you give to reports.
To put it in pirate lingo in honor of today: No captain be sailing a ship alone, so batten down the hatches, prime the guns, and swab the decks, matey -- or be walking the plank.
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